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What's Cookin' Doc?

Directed By:		Robert Clampett Friz Freleng (uncredited)
Produced By:		Leon Schlesinger
Released:		January 8, 1944
Series:		Merrie Melodies
Story:		Michael Sasanoff Michael Maltese (uncredited)
Animation:		Bob McKimson Rod Scribner (uncredited) Manuel Perez (uncredited) Gerry Chiniquy (uncredited) Gil Turner (uncredited)
Layouts:
Backgrounds:
Film Editor:		Treg Brown (uncredited)
Voiced By:		Mel Blanc (uncredited) Robert C. Bruce (uncredited)
Music:		Carl W. Stalling
Starring:		Bugs Bunny Emcee Hiawatha Hollywood Wolf Oscar
Preceded By:		Little Red Riding Rabbit
Succeeded By:		Meatless Flyday

Bugs_Bunny_What's_Cookin'_Doc — Bugs Bunny What's Cookin' Doc

What's_Cookin'_Doc?_(USA_Turner_print) — What's Cookin' Doc? (USA Turner print)

What's_Cookin'_Doc?_(1944) — What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)

Remastered print

What's Cookin' Doc? is a 1944 Merrie Melodies short directed by Bob Clampett.

Title

The title is a variant of Bugs' catch-phrase "What's up Doc?" It also hints at one of the scenes in the picture.

Plot

At the Academy Awards presentation, color film footage of various Hollywood scenes (edited from A Star Is Born) lead up to the Big Question of the evening: Who will win "the" Oscar? The film shows the stereotypical red carpet arrivals of stars, as well as a human emcee starting to introduce the Oscar show.

With the shadow of a now-animated emcee continuing to introduce the Oscar, and Bugs assuring the viewer that "it's in da bag; I'm a cinch to win". Bugs is stunned when the award goes instead to James Cagney (who had actually won in the previous year's ceremony, for Warner's Yankee Doodle Dandy). Shock turns to anger as Bugs declares the results to be "sa-bo-TAH-gee" ("sabotage") and demands a recount.

Bugs then tries to make his case by showing clips from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (which includes clip of Hiawatha attempting to "cook" the rabbit) as proof of his allegedly superior acting (an inside joke, as the cartoon had actually been nominated for an Oscar and lost). He hurls a set of film cans off-screen and tells someone named "Smokey" to "roll 'em!" Bugs tells the audience that these are some of his "best scenes". Immediately a "stag reel" (the title card depicts a grinning stag) starts to roll, and the startled Bugs quickly stops it and switches to the right film.

Finally, he pleads, "What do you say, folks? Do I get it? Or do I get it?" (echoing Fredric March's drunken appeal to the Academy Award banquet audience in A Star Is Born). The emcee asks the audience (in an effected nasal voice), "Shall we give it to him, folks?" and they yell, "Yeh, let's give it to him!" whereupon they shower Bugs with fruits and vegetables (enabling him to briefly do a Carmen Miranda impression)... and an ersatz Oscar labeled "booby prize", which is actually a gold-plated rabbit statue. Bugs is so pleased at winning it, he remarks, "I'll even take youse to bed wit' me every night!" The statue suddenly comes alive, asks in a voice like that of radio character, Bert "The Mad Russian" Gordon, "Do you mean it?", smooches the startled bunny, and takes on an effeminate, hip-swiveling pose.

Availability

(1986) VHS - Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals' The Best of Bugs Bunny and Friends (with blue borders)
(1990) VHS - Bugs Bunny Collection The Very Best of Bugs (VHS, MGM/UA), (with red borders)
(1990) VHS - Bugs Bunny: Superstar
(1991) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 1, Side 9: "Hooray for Hollywood" (with red borders)
(1991) VHS - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 9: Hooray for Hollywood (with red borders)
(2006) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc 1 (through Bugs Bunny: Superstar 1995 USA and EU Turner print)
(2007) DVD - Captains of the Clouds (1995 USA Turner print)^[1]
(2008) DVD - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection (1995 USA Turner print)
(2012) DVD - Bugs Bunny: Superstar (Warner Archive print)

Note: All the USA dubbed version releases have minor split cuts.

Controversy

This was one of the twelve Bugs Bunny cartoons deleted from Cartoon Network's 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, due to comic stereotyping resulting from the inclusion of the "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" clip. However, this cartoon's stereotypes are light compared to the more controversial animated pieces that never made it to air—such as Friz Freleng's "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" and Tex Avery's "All This and Rabbit Stew"—and has aired on Bugs and Daffy, The Looney Tunes Show (the 2002 compilation show, not the 2010 sitcom), and on The Bob Clampett Show.

^{[citation needed] (October 2017)}

Notes

While the USA Turner 1995 dubbed print retains the original Merrie Melodies ending music cue, the EU Turner 1995 dubbed print replaces the original Merrie Melodies ending music cue with the 1938-41 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.^[2]
This cartoon was used in the documentary Bugs Bunny: Superstar.
This is the final cartoon to use the 1942-43 Red Color Rings.

Caricatures

Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
Ernst Lubitsch
Harold Lloyd
Laurel and Hardy
The Three Stooges

Gallery

References

External Links

"What's Cookin' Doc?" at SuperCartoons.net

Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938	Porky's Hare Hunt
1939	Prest-O Change-O • Hare-um Scare-um
1940	Elmer's Candid Camera • A Wild Hare
1941	Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Tortoise Beats Hare • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt • The Heckling Hare • All This and Rabbit Stew • Wabbit Twouble
1942	The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Hold the Lion, Please • Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist • Case of the Missing Hare
1943	Tortoise Wins by a Hare • Super-Rabbit • Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk • Wackiki Wabbit • Falling Hare
1944	Little Red Riding Rabbit • What's Cookin' Doc? • Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears • Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips • Hare Ribbin' • Hare Force • Buckaroo Bugs • The Old Grey Hare • Stage Door Cartoon
1945	Herr Meets Hare • The Unruly Hare • Hare Trigger • Hare Conditioned • Hare Tonic
1946	Baseball Bugs • Hare Remover • Hair-Raising Hare • Acrobatty Bunny • Racketeer Rabbit • The Big Snooze • Rhapsody Rabbit
1947	Rabbit Transit • A Hare Grows in Manhattan • Easter Yeggs • Slick Hare
1948	Gorilla My Dreams • A Feather in His Hare • Rabbit Punch • Buccaneer Bunny • Bugs Bunny Rides Again • Haredevil Hare • Hot Cross Bunny • Hare Splitter • A-Lad-In His Lamp • My Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949	Hare Do • Mississippi Hare • Rebel Rabbit • High Diving Hare • Bowery Bugs • Long-Haired Hare • Knights Must Fall • The Grey Hounded Hare • The Windblown Hare • Frigid Hare • Which Is Witch • Rabbit Hood
1950	Hurdy-Gurdy Hare • Mutiny on the Bunny • Homeless Hare • Big House Bunny • What's Up Doc? • 8 Ball Bunny • Hillbilly Hare • Bunker Hill Bunny • Bushy Hare • Rabbit of Seville
1951	Hare We Go • Rabbit Every Monday • Bunny Hugged • The Fair Haired Hare • Rabbit Fire • French Rarebit • His Hare Raising Tale • Ballot Box Bunny • Big Top Bunny
1952	Operation: Rabbit • Foxy by Proxy • 14 Carrot Rabbit • Water, Water Every Hare • The Hasty Hare • Oily Hare • Rabbit Seasoning • Rabbit's Kin • Hare Lift
1953	Forward March Hare • Upswept Hare • Southern Fried Rabbit • Hare Trimmed • Bully for Bugs • Lumber Jack-Rabbit • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954	Captain Hareblower • Bugs and Thugs • No Parking Hare • Devil May Hare • Bewitched Bunny • Yankee Doodle Bugs • Baby Buggy Bunny
1955	Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Hyde and Hare • Knight-Mare Hare • Roman Legion-Hare
1956	Bugs' Bonnets • Broom-Stick Bunny • Rabbitson Crusoe • Napoleon Bunny-Part • Barbary-Coast Bunny • Half-Fare Hare • A Star Is Bored • Wideo Wabbit • To Hare Is Human
1957	Ali Baba Bunny • Bedevilled Rabbit • Piker's Peak • What's Opera, Doc? • Bugsy and Mugsy • Show Biz Bugs • Rabbit Romeo
1958	Hare-Less Wolf • Hare-Way to the Stars • Now, Hare This • Knighty Knight Bugs • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959	Baton Bunny • Hare-abian Nights • Apes of Wrath • Backwoods Bunny • Wild and Woolly Hare • Bonanza Bunny • A Witch's Tangled Hare • People Are Bunny
1960	Horse Hare • Person to Bunny • Rabbit's Feat • From Hare to Heir • Lighter Than Hare
1961	The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Compressed Hare • Prince Violent
1962	Wet Hare • Bill of Hare • Shishkabugs
1963	Devil's Feud Cake • The Million Hare • Hare-Breadth Hurry • The Unmentionables • Mad as a Mars Hare • Transylvania 6-5000
1964	Dumb Patrol • Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare • The Iceman Ducketh • False Hare
1979	Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol • Fright Before Christmas
1980	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny • Spaced Out Bunny
1990	Box Office Bunny
1991	(Blooper) Bunny
1992	Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995	Carrotblanca
1997	From Hare to Eternity
2004	Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas • Daffy Duck for President

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+'''What's Cookin' Doc?''' is a [[1944]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Bob Clampett]].
+== Title ==
-The title is a variant on Bugs' catch-phrase "What's up Doc?". It also hints at one of the scenes in the picture.
+The title is a variant of Bugs' catch-phrase "What's up Doc?" It also hints at one of the scenes in the picture.
-==Synopsis==
+== Plot ==
-The story centers on the Academy Awards presentation. The action begins with actual color film footage of various Hollywood scenes (edited from A Star Is Born), narrated by Robert C. Bruce. It leads up to the Big Question of the evening: Who will win "the" Oscar? The film shows the stereotypical red carpet arrivals of stars, as well as a human emcee starting to introduce the Oscar show.
+At the Academy Awards presentation, color film footage of various Hollywood scenes (edited from ''A Star Is Born'') lead up to the Big Question of the evening: Who will win "the" Oscar? The film shows the stereotypical red carpet arrivals of stars, as well as a human emcee starting to introduce the Oscar show.
-At that point the film switches to animation, with the shadow of a now-animated emcee (and now voiced by Mel Blanc) continuing to introduce the Oscar, and Bugs (also Mel Blanc's voice, as usual) assuring the viewer that "it's in da bag; I'm a cinch to win". Bugs is stunned when the award goes instead to James Cagney (who had actually won in the previous year's ceremony, for Warner's Yankee Doodle Dandy). Shock turns to anger as Bugs declares the results to be "sa-bo-TAH-gee" ("sabotage") and demands a recount.
+With the shadow of a now-animated emcee continuing to introduce the Oscar, and [[Bugs Bunny|Bugs]] assuring the viewer that "it's in da bag; I'm a cinch to win". Bugs is stunned when the award goes instead to James Cagney (who had actually won in the previous year's ceremony, for Warner's Yankee Doodle Dandy). Shock turns to anger as Bugs declares the results to be "sa-bo-TAH-gee" ("sabotage") and demands a recount.
-Bugs then tries to make his case by showing clips from ''[[Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt]]'' (which includes clip of Hiawatha attempting to "cook" the rabbit) as proof of his allegedly superior acting (an inside joke, as the cartoon had actually been nominated for an Oscar and lost). He hurls a set of film cans off-screen and tells someone named "Smokey" to "roll 'em!" Bugs tells the audience that these are some of his "best scenes". Immediately a "stag reel" (the title card depicts a grinning stag) starts to roll, and the startled Bugs quickly stops it and switches to the right film.
+Bugs then tries to make his case by showing clips from "[[Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt]]" (which includes clip of [[Hiawatha]] attempting to "cook" the rabbit) as proof of his allegedly superior acting (an inside joke, as the cartoon had actually been nominated for an Oscar and lost). He hurls a set of film cans off-screen and tells someone named "Smokey" to "roll 'em!" Bugs tells the audience that these are some of his "best scenes". Immediately a "stag reel" (the title card depicts a grinning stag) starts to roll, and the startled Bugs quickly stops it and switches to the right film.
-Finally, he pleads with the audience, "What do you say, folks? Do I get it? Or do I get it?" (echoing Fredric March's drunken appeal to the Academy Award banquet audience in A Star Is Born). The emcee asks the audience (in an effected nasal voice), "Shall we give it to him, folks?" and they yell, "Yeh, let's give it to him!" whereupon they shower Bugs with fruits and vegetables (enabling him to briefly do a Carmen Miranda impression)... and an ersatz Oscar labeled "booby prize", which is actually a gold-plated rabbit statue. Bugs is so pleased at winning it, he remarks, "I'll even take youse to bed wit' me every night!" The statue suddenly comes alive, asks in a voice like that of radio character, Bert "The Mad Russian" Gordon, "Do you mean it?", smooches the startled bunny, and takes on an effeminate, hip-swiveling pose.
+Finally, he pleads, "What do you say, folks? Do I get it? Or do I get it?" (echoing Fredric March's drunken appeal to the Academy Award banquet audience in A Star Is Born). The emcee asks the audience (in an effected nasal voice), "Shall we give it to him, folks?" and they yell, "Yeh, let's give it to him!" whereupon they shower Bugs with fruits and vegetables (enabling him to briefly do a Carmen Miranda impression)... and an ersatz Oscar labeled "booby prize", which is actually a gold-plated rabbit statue. Bugs is so pleased at winning it, he remarks, "I'll even take youse to bed wit' me every night!" The statue suddenly comes alive, asks in a voice like that of radio character, Bert "The Mad Russian" Gordon, "Do you mean it?", smooches the startled bunny, and takes on an effeminate, hip-swiveling pose.
-==Celebrities==
+== Availability ==
+* (1986) VHS - ''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals'<nowiki/>]]'' ''The Best of Bugs Bunny and Friends ''(with blue borders)
+* (1990) VHS - ''[[Bugs Bunny Collection]]'' ''The Very Best of Bugs'' (VHS, MGM/UA), (with red borders)
+* (1990) VHS - ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]''
+* (1991) LaserDisc - ''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes]], Volume 1'', Side 9: "Hooray for Hollywood" (with red borders)
+* (1991) VHS - ''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 9: Hooray for Hollywood'' (with red borders)
+* (2006) DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4]]'', Disc 1 (through ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]'' 1995 USA and EU Turner print)
+* (2007) DVD - ''Captains of the Clouds'' (1995 USA Turner print)<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Captains-Clouds-James-Cagney/dp/B000MTEFWI</ref>
+* (2008) DVD - ''[[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection]]'' (1995 USA Turner print)
+* (2012) DVD - ''Bugs Bunny: Superstar'' (Warner Archive print)
+Note: All the USA dubbed version releases have minor split cuts.
+== Controversy ==
+This was one of the twelve [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoons deleted from [[Cartoon Network]]'s 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, due to comic stereotyping resulting from the inclusion of the "[[Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt]]" clip. However, this cartoon's stereotypes are light compared to the more controversial animated pieces that never made it to air—such as [[Friz Freleng]]'s "[[Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips]]" and [[Tex Avery]]'s "[[All This and Rabbit Stew]]"—and has aired on ''Bugs and Daffy'', ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (the 2002 compilation show, not the 2010 sitcom), and on ''[[The Bob Clampett Show]]''.
+{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}
+== Notes ==
+* While the USA [[Turner Entertainment|Turner]] [[1995]] [[Dubbed Versions|dubbed]] print retains the original ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' ending music cue, the EU Turner 1995 dubbed print replaces the original ''Merrie Melodies'' ending music cue with the [[1938]]-[[1941|41]] ''Merrie Melodies'' ending music cue.<ref>http://chomikuj.pl/izebel/Filmy/Animowane/Seriale/Z/Zwariowane+Melodie/Pojedyncze+kresk*c3*b3wki/008.Zwariowane+Melodie+-+Co+tam+pichcisz+doktorku,1637869003.rmvb(video)</ref>
+* This cartoon was used in the documentary ''[[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]]''.
+* This is the final cartoon to use the 1942-43 Red [[Color Rings]].
+== Caricatures ==
 * Buster Keaton
 * Charlie Chaplin
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 * The Three Stooges
-== Controversy ==
+== Gallery ==
-This was one of the 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons deleted from [[Cartoon Network]]'s 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, due to comic stereotyping resulting from the inclusion of the ''Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt'' clip. However, this cartoon's stereotypes are light compared to the more controversial animated pieces that never made it to air—such as Friz Freleng's ''[[Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips]]'' and [[Tex Avery]]'s ''[[All This and Rabbit Stew]]''—and has aired on "The Bugs and Daffy Show", ''The Looney Tunes Show (2002 series)'' and on ''The Bob Clampett Show''.{{Citation needed}}
-== Goofs ==
-While the USA Turner 1995 dubbed version print retains the original Merrie Melodies ending music cue, the EU Turner 1995 dubbed version print replaces the original Merrie Melodies ending music cue with the 1939-1941 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.
-==Availability==
-Available on the following DVD releases:
-*[[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection]] (dubbed version, bonus feature)
-*[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4]] (through [[Bugs Bunny: Superstar]],  dubbed version)
-*Captains of the Clouds (dubbed version, bonus feature)<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Captains-Clouds-James-Cagney/dp/B000MTEFWI</ref>
-Note: All the dubbed version releases have minor split cuts.
-It was also available on the following videos before they went out-of-print:
-*''[[The Golden Age of Looney Tunes]], Volume 1'', Side 9: "Hooray for Hollywood" (Laserdisc, MGM/UA), unrestored, with red borders
-*''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 9: Hooray for Hollywood'' (VHS, MGM/UA), unrestored, with red borders
-*''[[Bugs Bunny Collection]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> ''The Very Best of Bugs'' (VHS, MGM/UA), unrestored, with red borders
-*''[[Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals|Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals'<nowiki/>]]'' ''The Best Of Bugs Bunny and Friends ''(VHS, MGM/UA), unrestored, with red borders
-==Gallery==
 <gallery>
 What's Cookin' Doc Lobby Card.PNG|1st Lobby Card
 _10150123678533926_223597233925_6375111_7473868_n.jpg|2nd lobby card
 What's_Cookin'_Doc1.JPG
+Wcookdoc.jpg|Unrestored Title Card
 </gallery>
-==References==
+== References ==
 {{Reflist}}
-==External Links==
+== External Links ==
-[http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/1043/bugs-bunny-whats-cookin-doc.html What's Cookin' Doc?] at SuperCartoons.net
+* "[http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/1043/bugs-bunny-whats-cookin-doc.html What's Cookin' Doc?]" at SuperCartoons.net
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-[[Category:Cartoons animated by Manuel Perez]]
-[[Category:Cartoons animated by Gerry Chiniquy]]
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